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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
Robert Genn
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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There is no progress without product.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
Robert Genn
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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
Robert Genn